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The Intel i386 turns 40 years old — 275,000 transistors running at 16MHz changed personal computing forever

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The Intel i386 turns 40 years old — 275,000 transistors running at 16MHz changed personal computing forever

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Hardware@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months ago

Intel's i386 brought 32-bit registers to x86 and paved the way for Windows 3.0 and Linux.

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And Atari ST and Commodore Amiga and Sinclair QL.
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  Amiga 1000 is the best computer ever made! RIP Jack Tramiel.

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